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To ask the Scottish Executive how many rural development grants have been awarded in the Borders and at what (a) total and (b) average value, in each year since 2007. The following table sets out funding value and cases per year in the Borders for schemes under the current Scotland Rural Development Programme 2007-13, worth some £65.8 million in total.
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Date answered:
7 February 2011
The Scottish Patients at Risk of Readmission and Admission (SPARRA) tool is used to estimate the future risk of unscheduled inpatient admission of someone who has experienced at least one such admission in the preceding three years. The following table shows the number of people meeting this criterion in each NHS board at the start of both financial years....
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Date answered:
4 February 2011
Note that local authorities are not ideal proxies for cities in all cases, for example the Highland local authority and the city of Inverness. The following table shows the median gross weekly pay for employee by gender in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
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Date answered:
27 January 2011
I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: Castle Huntly (a) Prisoners work in the kitchen, grounds and gardens, in cleaning parties and waste management and in limited decorating of accommodation areas.
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Date answered:
26 January 2011
The information is shown in the following table. Breakdown of Tobacco Test Purchasing Failures per Authority between 1 April 2008 and 30 September 2010.
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Date answered:
25 January 2011
Participating areas were announced on 6 October 2010. Details are as follows: Local Authority Properties Area Aberdeen City 8,700 Torry, Nigg and Cove Aberdeenshire 5,590 Fraserburgh Argyll and Bute 2,345 Milton and Ardenslate, Dunoon ...
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Date answered:
20 January 2011
Latest information on NHS Lanarkshire delayed discharge patients awaiting placement in a care home as recorded at the October 2010 Delayed Discharges census is shown in the following table. Table 1. Number of patients outwith the six week planning period, total, median, and mean delay durations for NHS Lanarkshire delayed discharges awaiting placement in a...
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Date answered:
20 January 2011
A recent example of this would have been changes to codes which relate to crimes of indecency, following the introduction of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 on 1 December 2010.
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Date answered:
17 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been (a) reported to the procurator fiscal and (b) fined by local authorities for illegal dumping in each year since 2007, broken down by parliamentary constituency. The following table shows the number of charges reported to Procurators Fiscal under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, Section 33(1).
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Date answered:
17 November 2010
We recognise that it is important to gather robust information on the number of people accessing treatment and that is why we are investing in the development of a follow-up reporting system for the Scottish Drugs Misuse Database.